By comparison, the minimum salary in MLB pays approximately $85,000 per month and during his prime Ramirez was paid more than $3 million per month by the Red Sox and Dodgers.

But after sitting out nearly all of last season the 40-year-old doesn’t seem very bothered by the cut in salary: “I don’t think about the money and contract. I just think it is a great opportunity for me and the fans.”

And then there’s this note, from the Associated Press:

Taiwan’s professional baseball league consists of only four teams, having been whittled down from a high of nine in 2008, amid a series of bribery and game-fixing scandals.

And yet that league represents Ramirez’s best opportunity to continue being paid to play baseball.

I believe he is also getting payed $12M in delayed compensation from Boston this season, plus another $2M from the Dodgers in delayed compensation this season, so nothing really to see here. Roids worked for Manny from a financial standpoint.

He’s going to eat well. Fillet of northern snakehead. Steamed giant isopod with drawn butter. All kinds of great noodle dishes. Hell, you could pay me $25,000 a month and feed me like that and you wouldn’t hear any complaints.

A little bit of a logical error here. Comparing the Major League minimum salary to the one he will earn in Taiwan is a fallacy. He got a minor league contract last season and he was released halfway through the year, so he made about $39k. I don’t think anyone was offering an MLB deal this off season, otherwise he would have taken it.